Desaware - Top Reviews

Since its inception in 1991 as one of the first third party Visual Basic component vendors, Desaware has lead the way in developing innovative software products to assist developers in their programming efforts. Based on experience going back to the days of Windows 1.0, we understand the critical features needed by developers, sometimes presenting a solution before developers are even aware of the problem (as in the case of VersionStamper - a tool which solves the "DLL Hell" distribution problems).

Desaware's products deploy advanced technology to reduce our customers' costs. Our customers have told us that VersionStamper has paid for itself within days of their product's deployment. Our NT Service Toolkit reduced the cost of developing NT services from weeks and months of time by high end C++ programmers to hours of time by Visual Basic developers - with no compromise in capability. Our SpyWorks package does the same, allowing VB and .NET developers easy access to lower level features in Windows.

Our new StateCoder product for .NET dramatically improves the reliability of applications, components and services that make use of the multithreading and asynchronous features of .NET. Forthcoming .NET products will continue in this tradition.

Our customer base ranges from independent contractors to Fortune 50 companies, all of whom have found that by using our products they can dramatically reduce time to market and provide more features to their customers than would otherwise be possible.

21. Obfuscating .NET - eBook - First Edition

Publisher: Desaware Product Type: Book/Documentation

Did you know that you ship your complete source code any time you distribute a .NET assembly? One of the consequences of the architecture of .NET is that a great deal of information about an assembly is kept with the assembly in a part of the file called the Manifest. Obfuscating .NET is an eBook that explains the information that makes it remarkably easy to not just recompile the assembly, but to decompile it, make modifications, then recompile it. While such reverse engineering has always been possible, it is extraordinarily easy with .NET - a situation that is a significant problem to anyone distributing .NET applications or components who is concerned about protecting their intellectual property. View More
22. StorageTools - ActiveX - V3.0

Publisher: Desaware Primary Category: Data Storage Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL

View any normal file as a Structured Storage file. StorageTools uses Visual Basic OLE Objects to represent storages and streams, creating a familiar interface for manipulating those elements. Detect whether files are in Structured Storage format or not, and even read any normal file as if it was a Structured Storage file. Includes a number of features specifically for VB developers such as Sequential, Binary, or Random access for reading/writing data. View More
23. Desaware ActiveX Gallimaufry - ActiveX - V2.0

Publisher: Desaware Primary Category: User Interface Collections Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Add a variety of components to your toolbox, while learning the techniques behind them. ActiveX Gallimaufry is a collection of ActiveX components covering a variety of different functionality, from graphics manipulations, the Win32 API, and transparency, to complex concepts such subclassing, and memory management. Each component comes with sample code and extensive documentation enabling you to learn the programming concepts as you explore using the components. View More